Chapter 5:

People were beginning to come out of their rooms, dressed in jumpers, coats, hats, scarves etc. Carmen, Tee and Lily were walking down the stairs.

'This is going to be amazing.' Carmen stated the obvious. After all, the had not had a treat like this in ages, and it was all thanks to Elektra, who had been clever enough to use Elaine's soppiness as an advantage.

'I wonder whose social worker she's going to be' Tee pondered, as Johnny came rushing down the stairs.

'Tee, over here!' Johnny whispered loudly.

'What?' Asked Tee, who was getting frustrated

'Just come!' Johnny said, he too was now beginning to get frustrated.

Tee shrugged and walked over to where Johnny was standing.

'Hey, hadn't you better phone your Dad so he knows where you're going?' Carmen reminded Lily.

'Oh yeah, back in a sec.' Lily went to the side and got out her phone to call her Dad.

'That woman is a pushover.' Johnny told Tee.

'So?' Asked Tee, who really wasn't following.

'So, we can use her to make finding us some decent foster parents her top priority.' Johnny explained to her. This is what he thought, anyway.

'Johnny I don't think…..' Tee began, but didn't get chance to finish her sentence because Johnny interrupted her.

'Think about it Tee, if we do the slightest good thing when she's around, we can get better files, she'll recommend us to lots of foster parents and we'll be turning them away by the ear!' Lets just say that Johnny had a very vivid imagination, a bit like Tracy when she was younger.

'I don't quite think that's how it works Johnny, and anyway, how do we know that she's going to be our social worker?' Tee said to him.

'We haven't had any luck with our current social worker for years; they'll want to try us with somebody different, and that somebody, just so happens to be Elaine!' Johnny went on.

'I still don't see how this is going to help us.' Tee was beginning to get bored now, and wanted to go and join Carmen and Lily, who had now cleared everything with her Dad, who was happy for her to go.

'Don't you get it? She'll do whatever we want. That means, that if we're really nice to her, and make a good first impression, then we can go all puppy-eyed and say how we haven't had a proper home or family for years, Elaine will take pity on us, and dedicate all of her spare time to finding us a decent place to live! Tee, this is the PERFECT opportunity to find ourselves a home and a family. We have to take it while we can.' Johnny insisted.

Tee felt awkward, she wanted to say something, but felt that she couldn't.

'What is it, what's the matter? Don't you want to get fostered?' Johnny asked her. He had never at any point felt the need to ask her about all of this, and had taken it for granted that she would be desperate to get fostered too. This however, was not the case, as Tee was happy at Elmtree house, where she had all her friends

'No, it's not that, it's just, well…' Tee didn't finish sentence because Johnny interrupted again.

'What!' Yelled Johnny, who was beginning to get very agitated.

'Well, I like it here. All of my friends are here, I want to stay here with Carmen and Lily and Tracy.' Tee said quietly, sounding upset.

'But Lily doesn't even live here any more! And Tracy's just a stupid care worker who thinks she knows everything just because she used to live here!' Johnny yelled. He didn't really mean it, but he was just really angry and upset with Tee. Unfortunately for him, Tracy appeared in the corridor, and neither he nor Tee noticed.

'When the truth is, she knows nothing about families, coz she's never had one.' Johnny carried on, before he realised that Tracy was standing right behind him.

Tracy was stunned and upset.

'Oh, Tracy I'm so sorry. I didn't…' Johnny didn't get chance to finish his sentence because Tracy gave him a taste of his own medicine and interrupted him.

'It's time to go now, we'll talk about this later.' Tracy told him, as she tried to remain calm. She was upset by what Johnny had said, but she managed not to show it.

Johnny walked off to the mini bus, and Tracy put her arm round Tee.

'Are you alright Tracy?' Tee asked her, looking concerned.

'Yeah, I'm fine.' Replied Tracy, who smiled and tried to forget about what Johnny had said about her, she was just far too curious though, and couldn't but ask Tee what was going on with Johnny.

'Oh, nothing, I'll tell you later, like you said, we have to go now.' Said Tee in an attempt to avoid the subject.

Tracy and Tee walked off to the mini bus and got in.

'Are we all ready?' Elaine asked them, though it was a pointless question, as they were missing no one and everybody was sat down and had their seatbelts on.

'YES!' Everybody else shouted at the same time, it was obvious that they were excited.

'Well let's go then!' Said Elaine, as she pulled the mini bus away from the driveway.

'Have fun!' Shouted Mike, who was standing on the driveway waving them off.